Virginia mother arrested, charged in child's death after 4-year-old ate THC gummies, police say - CNN

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A Virginia parent is facing felony execution and kid neglect charges successful the accidental decease of her 4-year-old lad after, according to authorities, doctors recovered a precocious level of THC successful the child.

Authorities judge the kid ingested “a ample amount” of THC gummies, according to a news release from the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office.

Dorothy Annette Clements, 30, of Spotsylvania, was taken into custody connected Thursday aft being indicted by a expansive assemblage connected Monday.

The kid died aft suffering a “medical emergency” connected May 8, according to the release.

Tetrahydrocannabinol, oregon THC, is the chemic compound successful the marijuana works that makes the idiosyncratic high.

The kid was enactment connected beingness enactment connected May 6 and died 2 days later, Maj. Troy Skebo of the Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office told CNN.

“Detectives judge the kid ingested a ample magnitude of THC gummies. The attending doc told Detectives that if aesculapian involution occurred soon aft ingestion, it could person prevented death,” constabulary said. “Statements made to Detectives by the parent did not lucifer grounds seized astatine the home.”

WUSA9 reported that erstwhile they spoke with Clements earlier she was charged, she said her lad was sitting close adjacent to her erstwhile helium began to amusement trouble breathing.

“She realized someway that helium had eaten a gummy. She thought it was not going to origin harm and called poison control,” WUSA9 wrote.

The Virginia Department of Health confirmed the child’s decease is considered to person been accidental and “the origin of decease is Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol toxicity.”

The incidental is nether probe pending trial, according to authorities.